Management - Leadership

The Long Read: All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed

What’s the condition of your organization’s culture? Every organization has one. From a small business to a multi-national, it’s got a culture. From a team to a department to a division to a region to a country, it’s got a culture. Usually the culture of a business happens by default, not by design.

You might get away with ignoring these truths for the short term. You can rally people with charisma and through fear for the short term. But if you care about the long term, to successfully face today’s challenges, leaders need to know how to deal with these 10 truths.

Hi Madeleine,  I am a hotel manager for a high end property in a large metropolitan city. I am trying to create a program where department heads and midlevel managers at the hotel can come together to chat candidly about their career goals and how to achieve them. I have a vision to devote 30…

Celebrating the big wins is obvious, but what about the smaller victories? Great bosses celebrate the small wins. 6 reasons leaders celebrate the small wins.

1 overlooked quality of a great leader is safety. Simon Sinek shares how and why this attribute is important to good leadership.

New research published by The Ken Blanchard Companies cites a survey of 600 Millennial-aged workers asking them to list the leadership behaviors they believe most inspire better performance. An analysis of the responses identified five behaviors managers need to put into practice not to simply manage and deal with the next generation workforce, but to…

With the holiday season upon us, now is a good time to pause and reflect on current trends and developments in business - and in the spirit of the New Year, set some goals for 2017. My professional holiday wish list is quite short this year. I really only have one wish. However,

Blanchard Ignite! brings learning, leadership, and talent development professionals free online resources each month plus a deep dive into a hot leadership topic.   Check out these top articles from recent issues! 

It’s important to know as much as possible about your own style of leadership. I have found that sharing my preferred style with my team is not only helpful, but starts a good conversation about strengths and weaknesses. It’s equally important …

I am a millennial—I can’t deny it. I was born in 1992, right in the middle of the millennial generation range. I grew up in a world where children were showered with praise and everyone was a winner on Sports Day. I’ve lived in the shadow of September 11th and repeated recessions. Oh, and I…

Frankenboss – noun; 1. A mean boss that terrorizes his or her employees; 2. A boss whose behavior closely resembles that of a half-brained monster; 3. A jerk. With Halloween just four days away, I told my wife that I wanted to write an article about the bad, clueless behaviors that make a leader a…

I am concerned that my executive team is not up to speed and I am nervous about delegating to them.